Premiums fall as US deal peps up Asia bond issuers
Asia’s bond market looks set to be one of the big winners from Wednesday night’s deal to end the US fiscal impasse. Rates are expected to stay low for the moment and any reduction of quantitative easing is now likely to be pushed back to 2014. And as new issue premiums shrink and investor appetite for duration returns, conditions are improving for Asian borrowers, writes Lorraine Cushnie.
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